ORIGINAL: Buster T
The last 3 shots I've taken on animals, 22 yards and close, all three very good shot selections, have ended in wounded deer not recovered.
How are those 3 shots, that ended in wounded and lost deer, BETTER shots than this one that ended in a dead deer?
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I dunno - his shooting, not mine. From what I know, he's shooting 100% on shots at that distance.
Buster,
If you've had 2 close wounding shots, I honestly would have to question how well hit these animals were, or whether the BH was worth it's price as scrap metal.
I wounded a 150-class buck 3 yrs. ago, and the shot still plays over and over in my head, I know I hit him high, but not that high, but I never found him. Even had some "lung" blood but very little. I must've one lung him, or something, but I know for sure, he's not on my wall. That was a high percentage shot, 11yds, but from 20ft up, I hit him too high. I learned from that shot though, I hold everything on heart from 24yds (where I set my first pin) and in, figuring that if I hold heart, and hit a little high, worst I can do it get double lung. One of those things (another argument) 3D shooting doesn't teach you.
As to the last statement, who really knows how many shots he took, before he nailed the one we saw on video??? Maybe he did get
LUCKY and nail that buck on the first long shot he took with that bow, or maybe not.
LUCKY????[:-] Yep, I sure did say that. Because with all that wind, that shot was a prayer to even some of the best archers to be hitting a kill on a medium sized mule deer. Heck at 100yds, for that matter, even those tiny little .09 pins would look huge on his body, let alone those "giant" .19 and .29's most of us use.